Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.